Hacker News with Generative AI: Interviews

Interview with Owen Le Blanc, creator of the first Linux distribution (lwn.net)
Ask a Linux enthusiast who created the Linux kernel, and odds are they will have no trouble naming Linus Torvalds—but many would be stumped if asked what the first Linux distribution was, and who created it.

Linux, History, Interviews, Operating Systems

6 points by rwmj 2 days ago | 0 comments

Under Trump, You 'Petition the King' – An Interview with Francis Fukuyama (noemamag.com)
“Under this administration, you don’t go to Congress to debate legislation. If you want to change something, like closing down a major agency, you petition the king.”

Politics, Interviews, Trump Administration

17 points by everybodyknows 4 days ago | 1 comments

Nobu Matsuhisa: 'I'd watch my mentor making sushi and copy him under the table' (theguardian.com)
The chef and restaurateur, 76, shares his boyhood inspiration, losing everything in a fire, and saying no to Robert De Niro.

Food, Interviews, Restaurant Industry, Biography

6 points by andsoitis 13 days ago | 0 comments

How we learned to stop worrying and love the AI (in coding interviews) (assembled.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Coding, Interviews

16 points by johnjwang 17 days ago | 0 comments

Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI (kapwing.com)
I just got off a one of the most surreal video calls of my life - a live video call with a candidate who was interviewing to become an L3 software engineer at Kapwing, our online video editing startup.

Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Interviews, Startups

415 points by justswim 22 days ago | 708 comments

Interview with Vibe Coder in 2025 [video] (youtube.com)

Interviews, Future, Technology, Video

4 points by mempko 24 days ago | 0 comments

The Art of DJing: Avalon Emerson (2019) (it.ra.co)
The art of DJing: Avalon Emerson

Music, DJing, Interviews

92 points by easyThrowaway 28 days ago | 53 comments

An Interview with Oxide's Bryan Cantrill (chipsandcheese.com)
Hello you fine internet folks! Today, we're here at Oxide Computer Company, and I have with me, Bryan.

Interviews, Computer Hardware, Technology

16 points by ryandotsmith 29 days ago | 2 comments

Ask HN: How are you dealing with AI-assisted interview cheaters? (ycombinator.com)
Ethical questions aside, if you interview engineers remotely, how are you dealing with the proliferation of AI-assisted interview cheater software?

AI, Interviews, Software, Engineering

16 points by gtirloni 29 days ago | 34 comments

The Leader of the LeetCode Rebellion: An Interview with Roy Lee (thepennpost.com)
On March 3rd, Roy Lee got an email from Columbia University. Figuring it was just another college newsletter, Roy, the creator of Interview Coder, was shocked at what he saw when he opened the latest message in his inbox. It was a notification from Columbia University’s Center for Student Success and Intervention (CSSI) that his case would be reopened following an initial Dean’s Discipline Hearing on February 17th, where he avoided potential suspension or expulsion.

Education, Interviews, Online Learning, Legal Issues

70 points by distalx 29 days ago | 44 comments

David Lynch Presents Interview Project (youtube.com)

David Lynch, Interviews, Film

54 points by toomuchtodo 32 days ago | 2 comments

Herbie Hancock on playing with Miles Davis, AI, and why the piano makes him cry (bbc.com)
Herbie Hancock is an all-time jazz great, so it is reassuring to hear that he suffers from the same modern day procrastination problems as the rest of us mere mortals.

Music, Jazz, Artificial Intelligence, Interviews

9 points by paulpauper 32 days ago | 0 comments

An Interview with Zen Chief Architect Mike Clark (computerenhance.com)
Zen is one of the most important microarchitectures in the history of the x86 ecosystem. Not only is it the reigning champion in many x64 benchmarks, but it is also the architecture that enabled AMD’s dramatic rise in CPU marketshare over the past eight years: from 10% when the first Zen processor was launched, to 25% at the introduction of Zen 5.

AMD, Computer Architecture, Microprocessors, Interviews

151 points by Smaug123 32 days ago | 19 comments

Paul A. M. Dirac, Interview by Friedrich Hund (1982) [video] (youtube.com)

Physics, History, Interviews, Video

123 points by mdp2021 35 days ago | 27 comments

Ask HN: How to study for system design that doesn't include front end/back end? (ycombinator.com)
I got a system design interview where I was asked to build a pricer for a financial product, then expand it to multiple pricers that might share inputs.

System Design, Interviews, Software Engineering

38 points by 3a2d29 43 days ago | 24 comments

Senior engineers: Please prep for interviews (josvisser.substack.com)
This week I am writing to you from my adopted home country of Spain. People who are not from Europe might not realize this, but Spain is the Florida of Europe, in the sense that many older Europeans of some means spend some or all of their retired life on the sunny Mediterranean coasts of this lovely country. My parents did so too and that’s how I ended up here.

Software Engineering, Interviews, Career Advice

9 points by 0xKelsey 43 days ago | 3 comments

TypeScript is being ported to Go – interview with Anders Hejlsberg (youtube.com)

TypeScript, Go, Programming Languages, Interviews

27 points by TowerTall 45 days ago | 2 comments

Short Conversations with Poets: Dong Li (mcsweeneys.net)
There is so much beyond words. There are actually no adequate words for the full complexity of human feeling, for the arcane details of a distant memory, or the colors of the sky. Blue doesn’t really cut it, but most often it’s the best we have. Poems, then, are the last stop before silence. After that, the train goes beyond words, and often beyond any form of representation.

Poetry, Literature, Writing, Interviews

43 points by mooreds 46 days ago | 4 comments

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak talks DOGE, Musk and Tesla [video] (youtube.com)

Apple, Cryptocurrency, Tesla, Elon Musk, Interviews

9 points by Puts 47 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: I researched system design questions so you don't have to (systemdesign.io)
Crowdsourced from users who gave real interviews

System Design, Software Engineering, Interviews, Job Hunting

6 points by seestraw 47 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: Stealth Interview (stealthinterview.ai)
Pass technical interviews and get huge offers all while being undetected by screen-sharing apps.

Job Hunting, Interviews, Technology, Privacy

11 points by oleks_b 50 days ago | 2 comments

Matt Mullenweg on the future of open source and why he's taking a stand [video] (youtube.com)

Open Source, Technology, Video, Interviews

5 points by duck 50 days ago | 0 comments

Valentin Hansen: Creating an Infinite Sound (sleek-mag.com)

Music, Interviews, Artists

14 points by zoklet-enjoyer 52 days ago | 8 comments

Official sequel to Cracking the Coding Interview is out (interviewing.io)
I have some exciting news. Along with Gayle Laakmann McDowell, Mike Mroczka, and Nil Mamano, I’m writing the official sequel to Cracking the Coding Interview (often called the bible of technical interview prep). It's fittingly called Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview.

Programming, Books, Interviews, Software Development

44 points by stmw 62 days ago | 76 comments

Sabine Hossenfelder: I was asked to keep this confidential (youtube.com)

Physics, Science, YouTube, Interviews

40 points by ta8645 69 days ago | 29 comments

The Exit Interview: JP Phillips (fly.io)
JP Phillips is off to greener, or at least calmer, pastures. He joined us 4 years ago to build the next generation of our orchestration system, and has been one of the anchors of our engineering team. His last day is today. We wanted to know what he was thinking, and figured you might too.

Software, Interviews, Engineering, Startups

10 points by tosh 70 days ago | 2 comments

Why I quit: kernel developer Con Kolivas (2007) (archive.org)
INTERVIEW | Linux is burdened with enterprise crap that makes it run poorly on desktop PCs, says kernel developer Con Kolivas who recently walked away from years of work on it.

Linux, Operating Systems, Software Development, Open Source, Interviews

53 points by nalinidash 70 days ago | 25 comments

Interview with Jeff Dean and Noam Shazeer (dwarkeshpatel.com)
This week I welcome on the show two of the most important technologists ever, in any field.

Interviews, Technology, Artificial Intelligence

11 points by lawrenceyan 72 days ago | 0 comments

I failed my Anthropic interview, came to tell you about it, so you don't have to (goncharov.page)
Anthropic – those dudes behind Claude. It’s an alternative to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, backed by some seriously massive investments from Amazon. Rumor has it they’ve got a model even more powerful than OpenAI’s o3, but they’re so obsessed with safety (which is a great thing!) that they still keep it private.